Space Needle, Seattle

Splitscreen view from the Euromast, Rotterdam

A combination of two panoramic images taken in summer and winter time.

Cubic reprojection

This extension projects the interactive panorama back onto six cubic faces, in realtime.

Cylindrical reprojection

This extension projects the interactive panorama back onto a unrolled cylinder, in realtime.

Legacy demos

The following demos are part of the legacy of SPi-V; these are some of the original demos that started SPi-V as it is now. They contain some features that are not yet available in the current version of SPi-V (such as animated elements and 3d objects).

Chit chat

This lady just keeps on talking... (no audio)
The fully alpha channeled avatar is a 15 second loop. She is composited in realtime on an alternating panoramic background.

Boardwalk exhaust in Washington DC

It's not just in the movies, there really is smoke coming from underground in the US.
Features characteristic animated billowing smoke.

Jeremy Allaire lectures on MX

This demo includes excerpts of Jeremy Allaire's presentation of the MX series of products. We would like to thank Macromedia for their permission to use the video stream.

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SPi-V engine

SPi-V* is a hardware accelerated panoramic viewing engine. The engine is based on a solid and extensible multimedia core provided by Adobe's Shockwave 3D. When launched in 2004 it was the first publicly available, cross-platform, 3d hardware accelerated panorama viewer.

*: SPi-V is pronounced "spiffy" and is short for Shockwave Panorama Viewer.

Feature highlight

High fidelity, antialiased graphics

Full screen, silky smooth navigation

Fully interactive userinterface and hotspot capabilities

Higly customisable branding options

Full, 8 bit transparency support

Compatible with Microsoft Windows (98 and up) and Apple MacOS (9.X and OSX)

SPi-V can be used both online and offline; in a webbrowser, integrated in a presentation or played back inside the standalone SPi-V viewer application. When used online, SPi-V benefits from the existing player adoption for Shockwave. Offline things look even better, as no install is necessary to run the SPi-V standalone viewer off a CD. Even though SPi-V is capable of displaying exciting new effects inside panoramic scenes hardware requirements are low, allowing a wide audience to enjoy engaging content.

System requirements

Authoring

For its panoramic scenes and virtual tours, SPi-V uses XML files which reference (graphic) media files. Similar to HTML - the bricks that make up internet pages - XML files are text based, meaning they are easy to adjust in any simple text editor. Content creators will find a treasure of information about the SPi-V XML specification, as well as a means to communicate with me and other members of the SPi-V community at SPi-V dev, the content developer's website.